Pretty sure that tristantio is implying that not even classes that crit are required to go for stats/talents that improve crit in order to do damage. Take this with a grain of salt since I don't PvP competitively, but it seems to me that if resilience affects burst damage in an over-the-top way, that the manner to compensate would be to stack straight +damage or AP instead, meaning that one would have a higher, more consistent stream of non-crit damage output (similar to DoTs in that way) and thus be less adversely affected by resilience. Obviously that negates a lot of burst damage ability...but maybe that's the point, after all.

That's correct, "sustained non-crit damage" implies just your standard melee hits that didn't crit, as well as spells that didn't crit. (I didn't say, "sustained non-crittable damage")

If warlocks stacked up spell crit at the expense of +damage/stam/resilience, you would see much smaller DoT damage numbers, however warlocks choose to be non-reliant on crit (even though we get a 20% damage bonus to shadow spells for shadow bolt crits, which is as good a bonus as flurry is to warrior DPS since many warriors never have more than 3/5 flurry for the 15% bonus).

Warriors/rogues/hunters could forego +crit entirely and focus primarily on +attack power, just like mages can drop +crit on their armor and go for constant damage.

DoTs already incur the cost of taking a long time to do their dmg and are easily removed (heck, there are 4 class skills that remove UA off themselves w/o any negative effects, 3 of which remove entire DoT stacks instantly). The ability to remove DoTs already reduces their effectiveness by a huge amount (e.g. removing Corruption after 15-17.5s = -16% dmg, and removing a DoT w/in 3s = -100% dmg). Direct Damage, of course, does not face these limitations. Moreover, DoT damage is the slowest, most consistent dmg and, if not removed, can be completely anticipated -- thus, the polar opposite of the unanticipated (e.g. burst) dmg that relisience mitigates. People also frequently fail to mention HoTs, comparable in cast time to DoTs and essentially counter at least 1 DoT per Hot.

The strength of DoTs + LoS in 2v2 and 3v3 is a byproduct of map design and imho a poor reason to nerf DoTs in the majority of PvP (e.g. imagine if Nagrand pillars were squares instead). And the strength of "DoT + run" in BGs is a byproduct of disorganized PvP. Should PvP be balanced around organized PvP or balanced according to the assumption that one is always PvPing completely solo and in addition nerfing skills according to the terrain that benefits them most?

Agree, we don't want more luck factors in this game.